Chapter 179

After searching for ten days without any clues, everyone was filled with anger. Zi Chen kicked a rock, intending to vent his anger, but who knew that the rock was indestructible and abnormally heavy, causing Zi Chen to feel pain.

He hugged his foot and jumped up, crying out in pain.

"Hmph, idiot." Chu Fei sneered, finally seizing the opportunity to ridicule him.

The old man and the burly man had a strange look in their eyes. They had seen Zi Chen's physique before. It was simply terrifying. Kicking a rock away was as easy as kicking a lump of mud.

But now …

The two of them looked down at the same time and saw a sharp rock that seemed to have been cut by a sharp weapon.

The two of them looked at each other. The burly man stepped forward and kicked it.

His strength was very light, and he didn't use much strength. With a 'peng' sound, the sharp stone was broken by his waist, and a piece the size of a fist fell into the distance.

"This …" The burly man was dumbfounded. He didn't use any strength at all and the thing broke.

He looked at Zi Chen again. He was in pain because of the force.

"Could it be that my physique has become stronger after eating meat recently? It's actually stronger than Chen Long." The burly man couldn't help but think.

But he quickly dispelled this ridiculous idea. He knew how terrifying Zi Chen's physique was. He was far from being comparable to him.

"Kid, don't pretend. Is there any meaning to it?" Chu Fei sneered. In his opinion, Zi Chen was completely pretending.

"Is there any meaning to it?" The old man was also a little speechless.

"I didn't expect you to be so honest and know how to be funny. But is there any meaning to it?" The burly man was the same.

The three of them were unhappy. They turned around and left. Obviously, they didn't think the joke was funny, even if Zi Chen's acting was very realistic.

"What's going on?"

Zi Chen was dumbfounded. He was wronged. He wasn't acting at all. It was really painful before.

But when he looked in the distance, a fist-sized rock was lying there quietly. The burly man kicked it lightly and broke it.

At this moment, Zi Chen was confused. The pain on the tip of his foot was so obvious, but everything was so unreasonable.

"I don't believe it." Zi Chen stepped forward, lifted his foot again, and stomped hard on the stone. This time, he used his True Qi.

Everyone raised their eyebrows. They didn't expect Zi Chen to be so serious.

"Pu."

With a soft sound, Zi Chen's foot landed, but it was accompanied by a scream. Zi Chen was like a mouse whose tail had been stepped on. He jumped several meters into the air and his face turned ashen.

Looking at the ground again, the fist-sized rock was still lying there calmly. It didn't even sink into the ground.

"What's going on?"

The three of them were puzzled. Even if he was acting, he shouldn't be acting like this. Although the acting was very realistic, was this the time for acting?

The three of them felt bored.

"Boring." Chu Fei, who was already very unhappy with Zi Chen, said coldly.

The burly man and the old man both frowned.

"I'm not pretending. This thing is really weird." Zi Chen felt so wronged that he was about to cry, but no one believed him.

"You go and try." The old man said again.

The burly man nodded, stepped forward, and gently stepped on the stone. With a puchi sound, the stone was stepped into the ground. It was very easy.

"Chen Long, that's enough. This joke isn't funny at all. Let's go find the token." The burly man's voice was a little cold, but he was extremely unhappy. Was there any meaning in this kind of joke?

"I'm really not pretending. If you don't believe me, look at the bottom of my shoe. There's a hole." Zi Chen felt very wronged. He limped forward and showed everyone the bottom of his shoe. There was indeed a hole.

"This."

Everyone was dumbfounded. If it was acting, it was purely to amuse everyone. There was no need to work so hard and break his own shoe.

"Is there really something strange?" Several people began to doubt.

Zi Chen picked up the stone that had been trampled into the mud. Then, in front of everyone, he activated his golden True Qi and forcefully pinched the stone apart. There was no pretense at all. However, no matter how much force Zi Chen used, the stone did not budge at all. Its hardness was comparable to diamond.

"Do you believe me now?"

Zi Chen took the stone and walked back, muttering, "I want to see what's so strange about this thing."

Zi Chen squatted down and used his hand as a shovel to dig the soil.

"Chen Long, you're so childish. Are you a three-year-old child? Stop fooling around. We should go." Chu Fei said sarcastically.

"Shut up, you piece of trash." Zi Chen shouted angrily.

"Do you want to die?" Chu Fei's eyes flashed with a cold light.

"Don't talk. Everyone, dig. Maybe there really is something strange." The old man found something strange, so he also lowered his head and began to dig.

The burly man was skeptical, but he also squatted down.

"A bunch of idiots. You're just fooling around with a fool."

Chu Fei rolled his eyes and looked to the side. In his opinion, this was simply childish behavior.

"I've dug it out. There really is something strange."

But then, the burly man's exclamation sounded.

The three of them worked together and with their True Qi, the digging speed was very fast. When they dug a meter deep hole, the three of them found that it wasn't a big stone at all, but a statue.

"A statue? This is a trial ground. Where did this statue come from?" The burly man was puzzled.

The old man seemed to have thought of something and said anxiously, "Hurry, hurry up and dig it out."

The three of them dug hard again. A moment later, a statue that had been buried for god knows how long was unearthed. It was incomplete, only having a lower body and no upper body.

The statue was very ordinary. It was unknown what material it was made of. It looked like stone, but it wasn't.

The old man looked carefully and frowned. His face was full of wrinkles, but he couldn't see anything special. At this moment, Zi Chen used his strength and hit the statue.

"Clang."

Sparks flew. Zi Chen felt a stabbing pain and took a few steps back. His full strength attack not only didn't break the statue, it didn't even fall.

"What are you doing?" The old man stared at Zi Chen.

"I just want to see what this thing is. It's so strange. Now you see, we're not pretending," Zi Chen said.

"Stop hitting. If I'm not wrong, this should be the token we're looking for." The old man's low voice sounded.

"What? This is the token?"

Zi Chen was dumbfounded, and so was the burly man. As for Chu Fei, he flew over and stared at the statue with his eyes almost popping out. He couldn't wait to snatch it.

"I'm just guessing. I'm not sure, but we have to find the complete statue first." The old man said.

"Okay."

This time, everyone was very enthusiastic. Zi Chen carried the statue and they moved forward together. And this time, no one complained.

Because the three of them tried to lift this half statue, but they couldn't. It was like a mountain that weighed hundreds of thousands of pounds. When they pulled it out, it didn't feel like this, but when it was unearthed, it was abnormally heavy. Only Zi Chen could move it.

Only Zi Chen was able to lift the statue effortlessly. Then, he turned around and carried it on his back.

"Sure enough, it's strange."

In the following days, the four of them tried their best to find the rest of the statue. Relatively speaking, this was a relatively difficult task.

On the second day, the four of them found a severed arm by a small river. On the edge of a mountain stream, they found another arm.

On the third day, they found nothing.

On the fourth day, they found another half of the body in a demonic beast's lair. As for the demonic beast, it was naturally killed by Zi Chen.

On the seventh day, the statue was almost restored. Only a neck, an arm, and a head were missing.

"This mark can't be older than a year. It must have been done by those prodigal sons of the Martial Sect. They saw a broken statue and actually cut it open." At the riverbank, the old man found the neck that was cut off and cursed angrily.

"This is the main token of the Everlasting Sect's inheritance. Those prodigal sons, not only are they ignorant, they even cut such a precious thing into pieces and treated it like trash."

The four of them walked for a while and found a complete arm. At this moment, the statue had been restored except for the head. However, from the surface, it still looked ordinary.

"Hurry up and find the head," the old man urged.

Beside a pile of rocks, Zi Chen found the head of the statue. However, it was only half of it, and it was split in the middle. The cut was very smooth, as if it had been cut by a sharp sword.

"We still need half. That bunch of ignorant fools."

The old man wanted to slap the Martial Sect disciple to death. Seeing that the statue was so resplendent that it was beyond recognition, he was truly heartbroken.

"Prodigal son, this is a blasphemy to the strong."

Finally, the old man found the other half of the head beside a pile of dried feces. However, there were some yellow things on one side of the head. The old man was so angry that his whole body trembled. He wanted to curse all the ancestors of the Martial Ancestor since its establishment.

"It's just a statue. What blasphemy? Old man, you're making a fuss about nothing." Zi Chen smiled indifferently, not caring at all.

"Boom!"

Just as he finished speaking, the other half of the head was replaced by the old man, and the statue began to change. An aura surged out, and in the next moment, the statue, which had been light as a feather, suddenly became as heavy as a mountain, pressing down on Zi Chen.

"Crack." "Crack."

His bones made crisp sounds. The statue was pressing down on his back, and he couldn't get rid of it at all. It was like a mountain.

"Quick, help me." Zi Chen begged for help. His eyes were filled with shock.

However, the statue was emitting an invisible aura. The two couldn't get close at all. As for Chu Fei, he didn't want to help at all.

"Crack crack."

Zi Chen's bones made cracking sounds, as if they were about to break. Moreover, there was a strong pressure on the statue, making Zi Chen feel suffocated.

A sense of crisis rose from the bottom of his heart. At this moment, Zi Chen felt that his life was in danger.

"Am I going to be crushed to death by this statue?"

Zi Chen was shocked and terrified. At this moment, he couldn't move or speak. He was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

This statue was very strange. It was as if it weighed down on Zi Chen, causing his bones to creak and his life to be in danger. If he died, Zi Chen would be the first cultivator to be crushed to death by this statue in the past thousand years.

Just when he couldn't hold on any longer, the pressure on the statue suddenly disappeared, and the statue became light again. Zi Chen gasped for breath. He had just survived a disaster, so he quickly put the statue on the ground and ran like a frightened rabbit for dozens of meters.